Zafra: GM K. Sasikiran played out his third draw on the trot, signing peace with Manuel Perez Candelario of Spain in Round III of Magistral Ruy Lopez International chess meet.

Julio Granda Zuniga of Peru upset top seed Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in 73 moves. Sasikiran is joint third with Ponomariov on 1.5. (PTI)